00:01Il First World War
00:03Starts with literally horses and carriages
00:05And ends with tanks
00:08So it's the moment where modern war
00:10You could argue begins
00:14From the very beginning I felt this movie
00:16Should be told in real time
00:19Every step of the journey
00:21Breathing every breath with these men
00:23Felt integral
00:24And there is no better way to telling the story
00:27Than with one continuous shot
00:283, 2, 1, go, go
00:51From the first moment I talked to Sam
00:54About the idea of it as a one shot movie
00:56I knew it was going to be really immersive
00:58It's meant to make you feel
01:00That you are in the trenches
01:02With these characters
01:07The film in itself
01:08Is a slice of time
01:10These two young men
01:12Get sent on a mission
01:13To deliver a message
01:14To stop an attack
01:15Action!
01:16So they've got to cross into enemy territory
01:18On a race against time
01:20To deliver a message
01:21That will save 1,600 lives
01:51And the camera never ever comes away
01:53Exhilarating
01:57Sometimes you have a camera being carried by an operator
02:00Hooked onto a wire
02:03And the wire carries it across more land
02:07And it's unhooked again
02:08That operator runs with it
02:10Then steps onto a small jeep
02:12Which carries him another 400 yards
02:15And he steps off it again
02:16And goes around a corner
02:20Let's go back to one
02:22This film does not take place in a series of interiors
02:27This is endless exteriors
02:31No location ever repeats
02:33So you're constantly moving through landscapes
02:37Being such an exterior movie
02:39We're very dependent on the light and the weather
02:44And we kind of realised
02:45Well for a start
02:47You can't really light it
02:48Action!
02:49Because you know
02:50If you were running down a trench
02:51And turning around 360 degrees
02:53There's nowhere to put a light anywhere
02:55And because we were shooting in story order
02:58We have to shoot in cloud
02:59To get the continuity from scene to scene
03:03So some mornings the sun would be out
03:05And we couldn't shoot
03:06So we would rehearse
03:08And we're rehearsing
03:09And then we'd be waiting around
03:10Everyone with their eyes up in the sky
03:12Trying to see how long it'd take
03:13For the sun to move behind the cloud
03:16And as soon as it comes over
03:17You've got this five minute window
03:18Everyone would be like
03:19Come on, go, go, go
03:21Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go
03:23So you are also in the lap of the gods
03:27It was like a piece of theatre every take
03:30Once it starts you can't stop
03:32se qualcosa si va bene, hai bisogno di continuare
03:38fino a te lo vedo sull'escrizione
03:41non capisci come immersione
03:43e come questa tecnica trai te in.
03:50Per me, l'engagement è molto importante
03:54e questo è dietro la forma in cui abbiamo deciso di shootare questo film
03:57ho chiesto che le persone capisce come difficili per questi uomini
04:03e la natura di questo è dietro tutto
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